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THE WITCH DROPPED IN TWO STRAWS FROM HER BROOM 

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The Box of Smiles 

'<^5 (AND OTHER STORIES) O 


By LAURA ROUNTREE SMITH 
ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. M. PETTEE 



^HITMAP»T*PuBLISHING Co. 

RACINE, WISCONSIN 


















COPYRIGHT 1920 BY 

^5itmaW*Tublishing Co. 

RACINE. WISCONSIN 


OEC -5 1921 


©0.A653429 


THE STORIES IN THIS BOOK 




THE BOX OF SMILES. 9 

* 

THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER. 17 

TELL-TALE AND TATTLE TOO. 27 

LITTLE STAY-AT-HOME AND THE WISHING PIN. 37 

LITTLE GIRL THROW-AWAY. 46 

THE ENCHANTED STAIRCASE. 54 

LITTLE DWARF COURAGE. 68 

DOROTHY ANN AND THE WEE LITTLE MAN. 72 
















THE PICTURES IN THIS BOOK 

(ALL ARE IN COLORS) 


THE WITCH DROPPED IN TWO STRAWS FROM HER 

BROOM .Frontispiece 


HE WAS STANDING ON A SAND PILE SURE ENOUGH AND 
THERE WERE FAIRIES ALL AROUND HIM. 15 

AT THAT VERY MINUTE A LITTLE FAIRY JUMPED RIGHT 
ON THE LITTLE TOE. 19 

AND THEY BLEW AWAY, AWAY, AWAY. 31 

THEY SAILED AWAY FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY CELE¬ 
BRATION . 43 

THE LITTLE FAIRY FROM THRIFT TOWN STEPPED OUT.... 47 

THEY HAD A BIRTHDAY PARTY AND DANCED ROUND 
AND ROUND IN A RING. 51 

THEY LOOKED UP AND SAW A CUTE LITTLE HOUSE IN 
A TREE AND AN OLD MAN STOOD AT THE DOOR. 55 

THE DWARFS WERE ALL AT BREAKFAST DOWNSTAIRS.... 59 

AND THE WEE PEOPLE CAME TUMBLING DOWN THE 

CHIMNEY ONE AFTER ANOTHER. 63 












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THE BOX OF SMILES 


(Little Boo-Hoo—Is it Y-O-U?) 

“What shall I do ■ 

For Little Boo-Hoo?” 

cried mother one day. 

Her little boy cried when he had his 
face washed, and cried when he had to get 
up, and cried when he had to go to bed, 
and cried when he went to school, or 
stubbed his toe, or lost a game of ball. 

Little Fairy Light-Heart whispered to 
mother, 

“I can help you soon it seems. 

I’ll take him to the land of dreams. 


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Before you could wink an eye-lasli little 
Boo-Hoo was nid-nid-nodding, and in the 
twinkling of an eye Fairy Light-Heart said, 

“The desert country is new to you, 
We’ll travel together, Little Boo-Hoo!” 

Little Boo-Hoo rubbed his eyes. 

He was standing on a sand pile sure 
enough, and there were fairies all around 
him. 

They were not fairies with happy, smil¬ 
ing faces, but they frowned and scolded 
while Fairy Long-Face cried, 

“Little Boo-Hoo has cried for years 
He soon will he dissolved in tears!” 


Then the most surprising thing hap¬ 
pened! 


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Four and twenty little fairies came run¬ 
ning with four and twenty little empty 
gold-fish howls and Fairy Growly-Voice 
said, 

“Really we don’t mean to tease, Sir, 
Will you cry each bowl full please, 
Sir?” 

The Elves and Fairies were very short 
of water in their desert home! 

Before Little Boo-Hoo could shed a tear, 
Elk Big-Frown led a whole bucket brigade 
and said, 

Come, cry our buckets full for fun, 
Then we can get our washing done.” 

All the fairies set up a chorus, 

“A bucket full, come cry with pleasure, 
Little Boo-Hoo give good measure.” 


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Then Fairy Contrary said, 

“Come cry a pond full, for we think 
We’ll freeze it for a skating rink.” 

Jnst as Little Boo-Hoo began to feel a 
tiny little hit scared under his left hand 
vest coat pocket, Fairy Light-Heart, who 
had left only for a minute, skipped first on 
one foot then on the other singing, 

“In a hole, high in the tree, 

See the little Wishing Key!” 

Little Boo-Hoo looked above him, on a 
branch hung a little key. 

He took it in his chubby little fingers 
and read on the key, 

“If you travel miles and miles, 
Perhaps you’ll find the Box of Smiles.” 


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Then the dimples began to play about 
his month, and because the fairy verse 
mentioned “miles” he thought as likely as 
not, the Box of Smiles might be near, for 
the fairies enjoy a joke! 

He put his hand in the hole in a hol¬ 
low tree beside him, and out came the 
Box of Smiles. 

On the box was written, 

“The Box of Smiles before yon see, 
Open with your Wishing Key.” 

He put the key in the lock. 

It turned with a click, click, click. 

Out flew the smiles! 

Big smiles, little smiles, middle-sized 
smiles, 


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“Smiles to fit most any face, 

Smiles for every time and place!” 

Tlie fairies formed a magic ring and 
danced around Little Boo-Hoo, and while 
he was with them he never shed a tear! 
Every one smiled, and smiled. 

Fairy Light-IIeart took Little Boo-Hoo’s 
hand and they danced away, away, away, and 
when he awoke it was the dawn of day, 
and there hung the Wishing Key on a 
little blue ribbon, round his neck. 

Whether he ever found the Box of 
Smiles again or not I do not know, but 
he was always dimpling and smiling and 
speaking of fairy gold-fish bowls, and won¬ 
dering if the fairies ever got their washing 
done, and talking about fairies skating on 
a pond. 


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HE WAS STANDING ON A SAND PILE SURE ENOUGH AND THERE 

WERE FAIRIES ALL AROUND HIM {See page 101 ) 












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Whatever happened after that, 

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“He couldn’t cry and wouldn’t cry, 
But he never told the reason why.” 

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If ' you find the Box of Smiles he very 

careful when yon unlock it for, 

* 

When you unlock the box of smiles, 
They’re apt to travel miles and miles, 

They sing. It is true, to Little Boo- 
.Hoo, 

“Ha, ha, and ho, ho, we’re looking for 
you 

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Fairy Light-Heart is full of wiles, 
Just ask her for the Box of Smiles.” 

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THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER 


“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 
Oil, lio, it is fun to be making a 
shoe.” 

\ 

sang the Fairy Shoemakers as Little June 
ran through the woods one day. 

She stopped and listened and heard the 
fairy hammers, but she could not see where 
the fairies were hidden. 

Little June looked down at her worn 
out slippers and said, 

“I’d like new slippers, I’d like new 

shoes, 

Of every color, .if I could choose.” 
She went on to the store, with a basket 


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on her arm, for she was the little errand 
girl of the family. 

As she came hack home through the 
woods, she heard someone singing, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 

We are making a little red slipper 
for yon.” 

Little June looked under the broad leaves 
about her path, and under the toad-stools, 
hut she could not see where the voice 
came from. 

Every day she ran out and did errands 
willingly, and only once did she complain 
to her mother about her shabby slippers. 

Mother put little bows of ribbon on the 
shabby slippers to cover the worn part, 
and she said everything cost so much this 


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AT THAT VERY MINUTE A LITTLE FAIRY JUMPED RIGHT 

ON THE LITTLE TOE (See page 21) 



















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year June would have to wait for a new 
pair. 

Mother said pleasantly, 

“Wait a little longer dear, 

’Till coins, in my purse, you hear.” 

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Whenever June ran through the woods 
she heard a new song, and every bird and 
animal she met made friends with her. 

A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 
We’ll make a little slipper of blue,” 

sang the Fairy Shoemakers, and Little June 
clapped her hands singing, 

“I need new slippers, I need new shoes. 
If they’re for me, that’s glorious news.” 

One day June went on her way sadly, 
for one little toe showed through one lit¬ 
tle slipper. 


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By and by as she sat * down on a log to 
rest two little tears began to trickle down 
lier cheeks. 

At that very minute a little fairy jumped 
right on the little toe, that peeped out 
from the little slipper, singing, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, how can I see, 
Who will thread the needle for me?” 

It was a tiny needle of course, but Little 
June had bright eyes and she threaded it 
while the Fairy sang, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 

I make silver slippers with buckles 
new. 

Then June knew that she was talking 
to one of the Fairy Shoemakers and she 
said, 


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4 'Oh Fairy Shoemaker if you choose, 
Could you make me slippers or shoes?” 

The Fairy pretended he did not hear, 
but he blew a silver whistle, and four and 
twenty little Fairy Shoemakers came, with 
their four and twenty little needles and 
one after another, they asked the little 
girl to thread them. 

As they hopped about her, she never 
dreamed that they might he measuring her 
feet for a pair of slippers. 

One of the Fairies hopped right up in 
her lap, saying, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 

We heard you were crying, oh was 
it true?” 

Little June said, 44 How would you feel 


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if you were in a performance to be given 
the last day of school, and what if you 
had to dance in the front row, with an 
old pair of slippers on?” 

At that, the Fairy Shoemakers all sang 
in a chorus, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 
And in the front row, that will never 
do.” 

Little June did not know that she had 
been dreaming in the woods that Saturday 
morning, until she felt a gentle tap on her 
shoulder, and there stood her teacher be¬ 
fore her. 

Little June cried again and told her 
teacher all her troubles, and her teacher 
said, “I love the fairies too, hark! what is 
that?” 


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They both heard the fairy song. 


“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 

We are making little red slippers for 
you. 


Little June went merrily homeward. 

The last day of school drew nearer and 
nearer. 

# 

The little slippers grew more and more 

t 

At last the great day came, and mother 
said she was sorry she had no new slippers 
for the willing little feet. 

She said, * / 



“I’m sorry when the day is here, 

No coins are in my purse, I fear.” 

Little June sat down and sang, 


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“I need new slippers, I think it funny, 
I know no way of making money.” 

Evening came, and she put on the little 
white dress she had ironed herself, and the 
little red sash and hair ribbons father had 
given her. 

She looked at the little old slippers, with 
patches upon them. They had been care¬ 
fully blackened. 

At that very minute the door-bell went, 
“Tinkle, tinkle, tinkle.” 

She ran downstairs in her stocking feet. 

There, on the door-step was a hox marked, 

“For June.” 

* 

With trembling fingers she opened it, 
and took out a pair of little red slippers. 

They were exactly the right size. 

They had gilt buckles upon them. 


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Little June was so liappy she danced the 
hest of any one, she had to come out by 
and by all alone, in her little red slippers 
and dance for an encore. 

The people said it was the prettiest little 
performance they had ever seen, and Little 
June knew that it was a fairy dance, and 
that she had learned it from the Fairy 
Shoemakers who measured her for a pair 
of slippers. 

Even as she danced she thought she heard 
their fairy hammers ringing, and their fairy 
voices singing, 

“A rat, a tat, tat, a rat, a tat, too, 

We made the little red slippers for 


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TELL-TALE & TATTLE-TOO 


A Halloween Story for Me and Yon 
On Halloween night, when the moon 
is bright 

The witches are about, 

On Halloween night, if you’re not 
good, quite, 

They’ll scare you without doubt. 

Once upon a time, there was a little boy 
who always told tales, and always tattled 
on his playmates at school. 

On Halloween night, a big Jack O’ Lan¬ 
tern appeared on the window-sill of his 
room, and called out of its crooked mouth, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

It's Halloween, we’ve come for you.,” 


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The little hoy replied, 

“I am a Tell-Tale, I’ve heard said, 
That you are just a pumpkin head.” 

At this very minute, a Black Cat jumped 
up on the window-sill, winking and blink¬ 
ing her great round eyes, and she said, as 
she showed her white teeth, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

It's Halloween, we’ve come for you.” 

The little hoy answered, 

“I am Tell-Tale, on Halloween, 

I hear Black Cats are often seen.” 

Then, whisk, hound, without any warn¬ 
ing, a witch on a broom rode right up on 
the window-sill and shouted, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

It’s Halloween, I’ve come for you.” 


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As she said the last word, the wind blew, 
“Ooo-ooo-” and it blew the little hoy right 
on the witch’s broom stick and they blew 
away, away, away. 

The Jack O’ Lantern and big Black Cat 
had to run as fast as they could to keep up. 

By and by they sailed down, down, down 
into the heart of the deep green woods. 

Brownies dance on Halloween, 

Tripping lightly o’er the green. 

There were Brownies sure enough, danc¬ 
ing in a circle. They waved their hands 
and made comical faces singing. 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Join the ring, we’ve room for you.” 

Before he knew it, the little hoy was 
dancing round and round the ring with the 
Brownies. 


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He was all out of breath when they 
stopped dancing and the Jack O’ Lantern 
said, 

“He tells tales as a rule, 

On the playground or in school.” 

The Black Cat said, 

“He tip-toes in without a noise, 

And tells tales on girls and boys.” 

The Witch said, 

‘Tell-Tale Tattlers are a trouble, 

In the kettle, let him bubble.” 

The Brownies said, 

“We will test him in the woods. 

He may decide he will he good.” 

They all began to dance around a big 
kettle, that hung over the fire. The Brown- 


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ies covered their eyes and the Jack O’ Lan¬ 
tern dropped a candle in the kettle. The 
Black Cat dropped in cat-nip and the witch 
dropped in two straws from her broom. 

Then the Brownies uncovered their eyes 
and said, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Tell us what did Jack O’ Lantern do?” 

Tell-Tale put his hand over his mouth 
for he wanted to whisper, “He dropped in 
a candle, and it will spoil your kettle of 
soup,” but he sat stock-still and never said 
a word. 

Then the Brownies winked and blinked 
at each other as they said, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Tell us what did the Black Cat do?” 


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Tell-Tale put both bands over his mouth 
this time for he wanted to sing out, “She 
put catnip in the kettle and it will spoil 
your porridge,” but he smiled to himself and 
never answered a word. 

Then the Brownies clapped their hands 
as much as to say, “We’ve got him this 
time, and said, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Tell us what did the old Witch do?” 

The little hoy turned a backward somer¬ 
sault for lie wanted to shout, “She put two 
straws in the kettle and it will spoil your 
stew,” but he said never a word. 

Then the most surprising thing hap¬ 
pened. 

The candle jumped out of the kettle and 
said, 


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“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Is not a good name now for you.” 

Then the candle jumped into a beautiful 
Halloween lantern and stood by his side, 
while the catnip jumped out of the kettle 
and said, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Such a name will never do.” 

Then the catnip began to weave this way 
and that way, till it wove a beautiful car¬ 
riage for the little boy to ride home in. 

Out jumped the two straws from the ket¬ 
tle and sang, 

“Tell-Tale and Tattle-Too, 

Think a minute, is it you?” 

The straws turned into two coal-black 


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steeds and were ready to draw the beauti¬ 
ful carriage. 

The lantern lighted their way, and say¬ 
ing good bye to the Jack 0’ Lantern, the 
Big Black Cat, and Witch, he drove merrily 
homeward. 

As a Halloween joke, 

Just then he awoke. 

He saw a Halloween lantern in the moon¬ 
light. It hung above the window-sill and as 
it turned round and round, he saw on it 
a Jack O’ Lantern, a Big Black Cat and a 
Witch! 

He cried, 

’Tis a magic lantern, if I were in it, 

I’d change my name to Think-A-Minute.” 

Whether he rode in the magic lantern or 


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not, I cannot say, but every year on Hal¬ 
loween a Big Black Cat, sat on his door¬ 
step, and a Jack O’ Lantern peeped in his 
window, and a Witch riding hy on a broom 
said, 

“‘Think-A- M inute, how do you do? 

Tis Halloween, we’ve come for you.” 

He had many jolly rides with the trio 
many times on Halloween without doubt. 

I wish I knew if he really changed his 
name to “Think-A-Minute.” I forgot to 
ask him. 


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LITTLE STAY-AT-HOME 
AND THE WISHING-PIN 


If Little Stay-At-Home had not found a 
red, white and blue pin on the 4tli of July 
perhaps nothing fairylike would have hap¬ 
pened. 

She said to herself over and over, 

“The Fourth of July, the Fourth of July 
To be contented at home I’ll try.” 

The children going to the Fourth of 
July celebration waved their hands to her 
and called, “Goodbye, Little Stay-At-Home, 
good-bye.” 

Little Stay-At-Home knew that mother 
needed her at home, and she knew that 
the ironing had to be done. 

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As she got out the Clothes Horse she 
heard a voice call. 

“Red, white and blue is your pin I see, 
Why don’t you make wishes, one, two, 
three?” 

Then the Ironing Board piped up, 

“Red, white and blue for the Fourth of 
Juiy 

You can make wishes now if you try.” 

The Iron acted in the strangest manner 
and began to run to and fro on the Ironing 
Board, saying, 

“Fairies grant wishes by and by, 
Hurrah, hurrah, for the Fourth of July.” 

Little Stay-At-Home had never happened 
to see kitchen things act in such a comical 
manner. 


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She stood first on one foot, then on the 
other and said, 

“Oh little pin red, white and blue 
I want peanut bags, and fire crackers 
too.” 


Then the first surprising thing hap¬ 
pened. 

A Peanut Bag sailed in the window and 
the Peanut Fairies sailed about as lively 
as crickets. They sprinkled and folded the 
clothes neatly. 

Little Stav-At-Home clapped her hands 
and said, 


“Oh little pin do not delay 
I’d like more help on ironing day.” 


Then the second surprising thing hap¬ 
pened. 


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A Firecracker walked in proudly, jumped 
up on the Ironing Board and began to 
iron clothes as neatly as you please. 

A cracked voice called, 


“Ha, ha, ha, let’s work together, 
Minding not the time nor weather.” 

Little Stay-At-Home began to iron on the 
table, and the Firecracker ironed on the 
board. My! how fast the work went on. 

Suddenly the little girl remembered she 
had one more wish so she said, 


“To finish my work I always try, 

But I’d like some fun on the Fourth 
of July.” 

Then the third surprising thing hap¬ 
pened. 


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In floated a red, white, and blue balloon 
with a basket below it, to ride in. 

The Peanut Fairies jumped in the basket. 

The Firecracker jumped in and Little 
Stay-At-Home jumped in beside him. 

They sailed away to the Fourth of July 
celebration. 

The Fireworks had not arrived. 

Little Stay-At-Home wondered if she 
could have one more wish, so she rubbed 
her little Wishing Pin and wished that the 
Fireworks would come at once. 

To the delight of all, they arrived and 
everyone shouted, “Hurrah, for the Fourth 
of July!” 

After the Fireworks were over and the 
red lemonade was passed the strange com- 


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oany in the basket sailed right back in the 
dtchen window. 

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A sweet voice called, 

“Wake up, wake up red, white and 
blue, 

Wake up, I have a surprise for you.” 

Mother * stood in the doorway with a 
glass of red lemonade on a tray, and a dish 
of white ice cream, and cakes covered with 
red and blue sugar. 

Little Stay-At-Home rubbed her sleepy 
eyes, her adventure seemed very real, and 
sure enough the ironing was all done! 

Little Stay-At-Home and mother sat down 
to enjoy their treat. She told mother her 
adventures. 

She put her hand to her dress. 

The Wishing Pin was gone. 


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Mother said, 


“To be good I wish you’d always try 
As you were this happy Fourth of 
July.” 


Then the most surprising thing of all 
happened. 

They saw a red balloon sailing over the 
house and a nutty voice called out, 


“To help next year we’ll also try, 

We wish you a happy Fourth of July.” 


They next saw a white balloon sail over 
the house and a fiery voice called, 

“If you’re good I’ll help you by and by 
Just call on me next Fourth of July.” 

The Firecracker sailed away in his bal¬ 
loon. 


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Then a blue balloon sailed over the bouse 
and a fairy voice called, 

“I cannot stop with you but to call 
good-bye 

Here’s your wishing pin for the Fourth 
of July.” 

The Wishing Pin dropped right down 
into Little Stay-At-Home’s hand! 

She called, 

“Hurrah, for balloons that sail on high 
Hurrah, hurrah, for the Fourth of 
July.” 

Now that Little Stay-At-Home has the 
Wishing Pin to keep for all I know she 
may make three wishes every day. 


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THE LITTLE GIRL 
THROW-AWAY 


Little Girl Throw-Away was always throw¬ 
ing something away from morning until 
night. 

“She threw away paper, she threw away 
string 

She threw away almost everything.” 

One day a fairy peeped in the window 
and called, 

“Little Girl Throw-Away, 

Hear what the Thrifty Fairies say.” 

The little girl said, “I don’t believe in 
fairies except big ones like Santa Claus.” 

Then the most surprising thing hap¬ 
pened. 


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The Thrifty Fairies sailed in the window 
and tugged at the little girl’s dress and 
apron, and soon they carried her away, 
away, away to Thrift Town. 

There every one was smiling and happy 
and every one was talking about saving 
something. 

They called in merry little voices, 

“Save to-day, save to-morrow, 

Then you’ll never have to borrow.” 

The Thrifty people were very, very small 
and looked like real fairies. One little 
Fairy called, 

“I’d make a four-poster bed to-day, 

If I had your pencils, Girl Throw-Away.” 

Little Girl Throw-Away looked in her 
dress pocket and apron pocket, but she 


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could not find any pencils at all. Then 
the Fairy said, 

“I like paper sheets, you think it 

But they would save me lots of 
money.” 

Then Little Girl Throw-Away, sighed, 
“Oh dear, oh dear, I do throw away things 
so much, I never save my paper, I never 
write on both sides of a sheet.” , 

The Fairy next said in a sing-song kind 
of way, 

“I would he glad of everything, 

If I only had a hall of string.” 

She would not tell anyone what she 
wanted the string for. 

By and by the Thrifty Fairies took Little 
Girl Throw-Away home. 



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She sat in her little red rocking chair 
and said, “I cannot see the Fairies now, 
but I will begin to save for them!” 

So she saved her little bits of pencils 
and paper and string, and laid them in a 
little box on the window-sill every night, 
and every morning they were gone. 

She saved all the paper hags too, that 
came to the house for the Fairies. 

By and by at the end of a year and a 
day, she saw a Fairy balloon. 

It sailed down, down, down, and the lit¬ 
tle Fairy from Thrift Town stepped out 
and said, 

“Our balloon is made of your paper 
and string 

And kites too we have made, and 
everything. 


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She gave Little Girl Throw-Away a tiny 
little white hox. On opening it, the Little 
Girl found a tiny gold ring with a forget- 
me-not upon it. Inside the ring was written, 

“Save a bit every day. 

Help the fairies in their play.” 

Waving her hand gayly the little Fairy 
stepped back into her balloon and sailed 
away, away, away to Thrift Town. 

Little Girl Throw-Away put her ring on 
her third finger and wished it on, saying, 

“I am Save-A-Bit, you understand, 

For I have been to Fairyland!” 

Soon every little girl in town was saving 
paper, and pencils and strings, and I think 
the Fairies must often have dropped things 
down to them from their gay balloons, for 


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the children wore happy smiles and talked 
in a fairy language. 

They sang fairy songs too, 

“Think, before you throw away, 

That’s what all the fairies say, 

The Thrifty Fairies wear a smile, 
And that’s what makes their life worth¬ 
while.” 

Little Girl Throw-Away became a very 
thrifty child and sometimes she talked in 
fairy rhymes. 

“I’m very glad the fairies came, 

And played with me a pleasant game, 
If you would like to do the same, 
Just save a bit, and change your name.” 

The Little Girl changed her name to 
“Girl Save-A-Bit,” and many a time she 
played with the Fairies from Thrift Town. 


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THE ENCHANTED STAIRCASE 

(A BIRTHDAY STORY) 


Little Boy lived with such old people 
they had forgotten what a Birthday Party 
was, so he said, 

“How can I give invitation hearty, 
Unless I prepare for a Birthday Party?” 

To his surprise, the staircase on which 
he stood, answered, 

“If you go up this staircase as like as not 
You’ll get to the bottom instead of the 
top.” 

Little Boy chuckled as he rattled the 
pennies in his pocket and said happily, 


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“Little pennies, dimes will make, 

Soon I’ll buy my Birthday Cake!” 

Before the pennies could be changed 
into dimes or answer a word, and before 
Little Boy could get into bed, (for it was 
his sleepy time) “pitter, patter, pitter, pat¬ 
ter” was heard on the staircase and up 
came Fairy Good-Cheer, saying, 

“I need a Birthday Cake I fear, 

My birthday conies but once a year.” 

The Fairies had always been so good to 
Little Boy that he emptied his pockets of 
the pennies he had saved for his own 
Birthday Cake, and Fairy Good-Cheer went 
off singing, 

“When anything you want to know, 

To the enchanted staircase go.” 


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Little Boy saved up his pennies again for 
a week and a day and said, 

“Little pennies round and bright, 

W ill you buy me candles for a light?” 

Before the pennies could answer a word, 
“pitter, patter pitter, patter,” was heard on 
the staircase and up came Fairy Light-Heart 
saying, 

“I must buy eight candles to lend a 
glow, 

You’ll lend them to .me Little Boy I 
know.” 

As Little Boy handed Fairy Light-Heart 
the pennies she sang, 

“When anything you want to know, 
To the enchanted staircase go.” 


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Little Boy saved up pennies again for a 
week and a day and said, 

“Little pennies for a treat, 

Will you buy some candy sweet?” 

Before the pennies could answer, “pitter, 
patter, pitter, patter” was heard on the 
staircase and Fairy Sweet-Tooth said as she 
hounded in, 

“All I need is some Birthday Candy, 
Do you happen to have some handy?” 

As Little Boy parted with his pennies 
again, she went off singing, 

“When anything you want to know. 

To the enchanted staircase go.” 

Once more Little Boy saved his pennies 
and when he had twenty-three he said, 


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‘‘Little pennies twenty-three, 

Will yon buy a top for me?” 

He put liis hand up to his ear to listen. 

Sure enough, again he heard, “pitter, 
patter, pitter, patter” and up came Fairy 
Sing-Song, singing, 

“All I need is a musical top, 

That will spin, and spin and never 
stop.” 

As Little Boy counted out his twenty- 
three pennies she went off singing, 

“When anything you want to know. 
To the enchanted staircase go.” 

Little Boy sighed after the Fairies left 
him and he went out and sat down on his 
own staircase saying, 

“To-morrow my Birthday will he here, 
I’ll have no party now I fear.” 


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Then the enchanted staircase on which 
he was sitting cried, 

“Just go to the bottom, look up and 
see, 

The Fairies surprise both you and me.” 

Little Boy ran down stairs and looked 
up. 

He saw on the tip top step a wonderful 
Birthday Cake. It was large and round 
and had pink and white frosting upon it. 

Just then a cheerful voice called, 

“Fairy Good Cheer makes no mistake, 
She has sent to you a Birthday Cake.” 

Then, as Little Boy winked and blinked 
his eyes to be sure he was not dreaming, a 
laughing voice called, 

“Fairy Light-Heart brings the candles, 
More than one Boy ever handles.” 


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There shone candles on every step, big 
candles, little candles, middle-sized candles, 
Birthday Candles, red, white and blue 
candles, ready to light the Birthday Cake. 

Then he saw boxes, and boxes of candy, 
while a sugary voice cried, 

“Fairy Sweet-Tooth pile them higher, 
Of candy, small Boys never tire.” 

Little Boy laughed so hard that he rolled 
right over in a heap on the floor, for the 
Fairy piled candy right up to the ceiling. 

Then a Musical Top began to spin down 
the staircase singing, 

“Fairy Sing-Song’s smile is winning, 
See, she sets your top a spinning.” 

“My Top,” said Little Boy in surprise. 

Then all the fairies trooped down stairs 
and cried, 


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“Tis lieigli! my hearty, and ho! my 

We’ll help you make a Birthday 
Party.” 

Then the most wonderful thing of all 
happened. 

The top step of the enchanted staircase 
opened. 

The Birthday Cake led the way. 

The lighted candles went two and two, 
and the candy boxes followed, while all the 
time the Musical Top played. 

Fairy Good-Cheer and Fairy Sweet-Tooth 
cried, 

“When you give pennies up ’tis true, 
Surprises sometimes come to you.” 

The Musical Top took one of Little Boy’s 
hands singing. 



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“We are on the road to Fairyland, 

We hear a distant Elfin Band, 
Thither we’ll haste without delay. 
For the fairies call, ‘Away, away,’ 
When you feel the touch of the magic 
hand, 

You can see the lights of Fairyland.” 

Fairy Light-Heart took Little Boy’s other 
hand singing, 

“How shall we ride to Fairyland? 
Shall we find the realm on sea or land? 
In that wonderful hour when dreams 
come true 

There’s a fairy palace for me and you, 
I am the Queen you understand, 
And you are the King of Fairyland.” 

In less time than it takes to tell it, the 
Fairies led Little Boy into Fairyland. 


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They had a Birthday Party and danced 
round and round in a ring and for all I 
know they are dancing yet. 

If you ever hear an old staircase go 
“creak, creak” when you are on it, put 
your ear close to one of the steps and listen. 
It may be trying to talk to you and say, 

“When anything you want to know. 
To the enchanted staircase go.” 

Whether your staircase is enchanted or 
not you can never tell until you try it. 



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LITTLE DWARF COURAGE 


Once upon a time when Dot went to 
visit the Little Dwarfs that live in the 
woods she stayed all night. 

She overslept, and woke at last when 
they were all at breakfast downstairs. She 
heard the “Click, click” of their silver 
spoons. 

She knew the Dwarfs would soon go out 
on their travels so she dressed quickly and 
came downstairs and said, “Oh Dwarf 
Courage, please take me with you tonight.” 

Then Dwarf Courage held his head on 
one side and Dwarf Laughter chuckled. 

Dwarf Courage replied, 

“You may follow up and down, 

If you will wear a cap and gown.” 

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Dot said, “I can hardly wait for night, 
I want to see how you give children cour- 
age. 

Dwarf Courage said, 


“Miss Dorothy Delia Drusilla Dot, 
Night time will come as like as not.” 


At last evening came, and they started 
out in cap and gown, Dwarf Courage say¬ 
ing* 

“We’ll have to hurry, for it’s said. 
Some children fear to go to bed.” 

What fun they had when they came to 
town, running up one staircase, after another, 
helping the children to go happily to bed. 

One little hoy was afraid after he had 
gotten to bed and Dwarf Courage pulled 
aside the curtain and showed him the 


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friendly moon and he went happily to 

One little girl was afraid to stay alone in 
the dark and Dwarf Courage cried, 

‘The clock is company for you, 

Just hear it sing “Cuckoo, cuckoo.” 

Dot said, “I never thought before what 
little ’fraid cats some children are.” 

At this, Dwarf Courage turned a back¬ 
ward somersault down the stairs and said, 

“Honestly Dot, I will tell you, 

There are some grown folks scarey too.” 

y . . , 

They had hardly gotten outside when 
they saw an old man walking in the moon¬ 
light, “See” said Dot “He is really afraid 
of falling.” 

Dot took one hand and Dwarf Courage 



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the other and soon the old man was safe 
at home. 

As they ran along giving every one 
courage, Dwarf Courage sang, 

“They’re scared of rats and scared of 
mice 

And often scared of things quite nice. 
They’re scared at morning, night and 
noon. 

They’re scared of faces in the moon. 
Oh tell me, what would people do, 

If Little Dwarf Courage were scarey 
too?” 

They ran along through the woods and 
some one was singing, 

“Umbrellas to lend, but none to sell. 
Umbrellas to mend, come ring my hell.” 

The rain was falling, “patter, patter, pat- 


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ter,” and they surely needed an umbrella. 

Dot s^id, “Where is the house? 

Dwarf Courage answered, 

“Look for the house, look in the tree, 
There, a funny old man should be.” 

They looked up and saw a cute little 
house in a tree and an old man stood at 
the door with umbrellas in each hand. 

Dwarf Courage cried, 

“See, old, man, we’ve come to borrow, 
We’ll return them both tomorrow.” 

Without a word in reply down sailed two 
little fairy umbrellas, and as Dot took one 
and Dwarf Courage took the other, they 
sailed right through the air to the little wee 
house in the woods, and Dwarf Laughter 
had a merry ha, ha, as they sailed in the 
open window. 


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DOROTHY ANN AND 
THE WEE LITTLE MAN 

(A THANKSGIVING STORY) 


“Little Dorothy Majorie Ann, 

Do be thankful if you can,” 

called a wee little voice one wintry No¬ 
vember evening. 

Then a wee little red boot was seen 
coming down the chimney, and another 
little red boot, and one of the Wee 
People soon was skipping merrily on the 
hearth. 

He danced himself nearly out of breath 
singing, 

“I’m a wee little man from far away, 
I’ll help you keep Thanksgiving Day.” 


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At this, Dorothy Majorie Ann scowled 
and said, 

“I’ve nothing to he thankful for, 

I think I mentioned that before." 

Then the most surprising thing happened. 

The Wee Little Man blew a whistle, and 
the Wee People came tumbling down the 
chimney, one after another, and the most 
remarkable thing of all was, not one had 
a speck of soot on his clothing. 

All the fairies were scolding. 

The Wee Bed-Time Fairy sang, 

“I’m thankful when you go to bed, 
For I am such a sleepy-head.” 

The Mirror Fairy said, 

“I’d be thankful you understand, 

If you liked to wash face and hands.” 


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The Rubber Fairy in the hall began: 

“Yon know we often spoke before, 
We’re thankful when we’re off the 
floor.” 

The Toy Fairy called, 

“We may be thankful once again, 
But spent last night, out in the rain.” 

The School Bell Fairy sang, 

“I’d be thankful as a rule, 

If you liked to go to school.” 

The Waste-Basket Fairy said, 

“I’d be thankful since you ask it 
If you would notice me—the basket.” 

The Good-Mannered Fairy sang, 

“We will be thankful when Dorothy’s 
able 

To keep her elbows off the table.” 


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At that, Dorothy Marjorie Ann danced 
and capered about for she had no idea be¬ 
fore, that she had anything to do with 
making the Wee People thankful, and 
every hour it grew nearer, and nearer 
Thanksgiving Day. 

Soon all the Fairies were dancing and 
shouting, 

“We’re thankful that Dorothy Majorie 
Ann, 

Will try to he happy whenever she 
can. 

Then the Wee Little Man who first came 
down the chimney joined hands with her, 
and they danced up the chimney, off and 
away, over hill and dale, and all the Wee 
Fairy People followed them. 

Soon they came to a little Wee House. 


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The table was set for Thanksgiving 
dinner. Dorothy Marjorie Ann said, 

“If I were a maiden like Fairies Wee, 
Oh my! how thankful then I’d be.” 

She did not notice that the Little Wee 
Man had put his wishing cap on her head, 
and as they ran on, she began to grow 
smaller, and smaller, and smaller. 

They ran all round the house, and the 
Fairies crowded round her and said. 


“Dorothy Marjorie Ann we see, 

Has grown so little, she’s wee, wee.” 


The Fairies snatched off the wishing cap 
just in time or there would have been no 
Dorothy Marjorie Ann left at all! 

They all trooped in to dinner, and every 
hour it grew nearer and nearer Thanksgiv¬ 
ing Day. 


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They sat at a table and Dorothy Marjorie 
Ann clapped her hands as d wn sailed some 
sliced turkey on her plate. 

At this very minute the Wee People set 
up a cry, 

“Take it away, take it away, 

She does not like Thanksgiving Day/' 

Away sailed the turkey, plate and all. 

Down sailed a fine piece of pumpkin pie 
on her plate. 

Just as she put her fork into it the Wee 
People clapped their hands and sang, 

“We’ll do this to Dorothy Marjorie Ann, 
We’ll put her in the baking pan, 
She looks rosy, nice and sweet, 

And almost good enough to eat. 

We think we’ll take her far away, 
And have a fine Thanksgiving Day.” 



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“Take it away, take it away, 

She makes no one thankful here to¬ 
day.” 

The plate sailed away as before. 

Down came a plate with cranberry sauce 
and cookies, but she had not even taken a 
bite when the Wee People called, 

“Take it away, take it away, 

She’s never thankful we heard her say.” 

Away sailed the plate, and Dorothy Mar¬ 
jorie Ann was so disappointed, that she ran 
to the door and put on her wishing cap 
and said, 

“That dinner was a great surprise, 

I want to he the proper size.” 

She grew just as big as she was before, 
and the Little People crowded around her 
and tugged at her dress singing, 


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At this very minute Uncle Phil came to 

the rescue, singing, 


“My little girl yon took a nap, 

In Uncles funny smoking cap.” 

Dorothy Marjorie Ann winked and blinked 
her eyes; sure enough she did have a funny 
cap on, and she cried, 

“I am more thankful than I can say, 
That I came home for Thanksgiving 
Day” 


“Where have you been?” asked Father 
as they sat down to eat turkey and pie and 
cranberry sauce. 

“Where have you been?” asked Mother 
Dorothy Marjorie Ann said, 


“I am thankful as can be, 

I don’t live with people Wee.” 


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Uncle Phil knew a few things himself 
about the Wee People so he said, 

“She went over the bridge I under¬ 
stand, 

And met the Wee People in Fairy¬ 
land. 

After that Dorothy Marjorie Ann found 
101 things to be thankful for and made 
all the Wee People thankful. 

“I am Dorothy Marjorie Ann, 

I’ll do all the good every day I can. 
When I work or play, I’ll always say 
I am thankful for Thanksgiving Day.” 


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